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Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By Søren Mau

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9781839763465, 1839763469, 9781839763502, 1839763507, 9781839763496, 1839763493
LCC
HB97.5 .M35813 2023
Google Books ID
c2xnEAAAQBAJ
Open Library ID
OL37991980M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2237600 bytes)
Pages
xi, 340 pages\353
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-12-28 13:37:40

Description

A new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalism Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and entrenchment amidst crisis and unrest, Mute Compulsion offers a novel theory of the historically unique forms of abstract and impersonal power set in motion by the subjection of social life to the profit imperative. Building on a critical reconstruction of Karl Marx’s unfinished critique of political economy and a wide range of contemporary Marxist theory, philosopher Søren Mau sets out to explain how the logic of capital tightens its stranglehold on the life of society by constantly remoulding the material conditions of social reproduction. In the course of doing so, Mau intervenes in classical and contemporary debates about the value form, crisis theory, biopolitics, social reproduction, humanism, logistics, agriculture, metabolism, the body, competition, technology and relative surplus populations.

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